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Tuesday, June 27,1972
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Independence Ideas On Going to Class
How are you going to spend the 4th of July? On a picnic? Watching fireworks? Swimming? Or just going to class as usual? In case you don't already know, then we'll be there in 2016. But that doesn't mean students are particularly happy about it, or that they plan to attend.
In a poll held recently, 86 per cent of KU students were against holding classes on Independence Day. Seven per cent ceeent did not care, and 7 per cent said they'd just as soon go to class and get it over with.
Of those who protested going to class, some comments were particularly interesting. One common reason advanced was that the summer session pace moved extremely quickly and there were no vacations. Another student said, "One day of class missed really makes much difference, especially when it is for something that is sacred to many, a national holiday." Another one stated, "It seems that the great scholars of Kansas University must not spare one moment from the great learned halls."
Though distinctly a minority opinion, one student said. "Going to school on the 4th of July is o.k. with me. No doubt summer session
requires a certain number of days of sessions, so let's get it over. Anyhow, it's safer in class than on the highway. Besides that, I'd just as soon, or rather, be in class than baking in a kitchen or on a lake."
There were those who thought observing one day of patriotism in 365 was not excessive. A comment, representative of many others, was, "It seems to me that going to school on the 4th of July is unpatriotic. Such a significant holiday demands a celebration." And there were other remarks: that Americans weren't patriotic and should take it to school; that school shouldn't be held at a state institution on a federally declared national holiday. One said, "I realize that being liberal is quite avant-garde, but not observing the 4th of July is carrying it a bit far."
The students who were most vehement in their attack of holding class don't plan to go. As one woman said, "I don't think we should have class, and up." We do, I hope no one shows up. "That will be the case with the Kansan. We'll be celebrating, rather than preparing a paper, so there will be no July 4th issue.
Rita E. Haugh Editor
By RALPH NICOL
-Historical Feature
BY RALPH HINCOLL
Kansas Stuff Writer
Activities from Summers Past
They say that back in the "old days" they used to go swimming at Potter Lake. They weren't kidding.
Politics has always been an important part of camp life. Throughout the first decade of this century, the campus was rocked by the women's suffrage climax in 1892 and climaxs in the summer of 1893.
A LETTER to the editor of the karen complained that she was politically attacked by a "militant suffragist" who used her letter in support of letter
One of the high points of each summer session through the 1900's was the student-faculty experience, and it changed the years. In 1914, for example, it was held in Robinson Gym, and all corners were crowded that time." It was warned that "anyone who dares to come in the pool" The event featured a tumbling skim, fancy bag punching, and a pianist who provided two-step, and Virginia Reel.
THE INDOOR pool at the first Robinson Gym was used less frequently than Potter's for such reasons. Because of their design for women, which were designed for teachers in charge of physical training in high schools. Also, twice a week "mixed bathing" with other faculty or the faculty and their wives.
In the earlier years of the
University of Kansas, Potter's
not only was not polluted, but was
also one of the first universities
wooden rafts. A review of past
university Daily Kansas
reveals the popularity of
swimming and a variety of other
during a past summer
sessions.
In the 1910's, swimming at Potter's Lake was popular and organized. Each summer starred a girl in a swimsuit like the fancy dive, under-water dive, 220-yard swim, cane racing for single and doubles, and boating.
further complained about the "minority of women who want to force their opinions on the rest of our sex."
The letter provoked an instant clamor. Within a week both a coach and a striker were formed. The Kansan quickly took a poll to find out what KU women thought of the team's success; results 67 against, 39 in favor.
By the 1920's, the lake was reaching its peak popularity. It was filled with 150 people every day for fishing, rats and logs. At the indoor pool, swimming was still segregated: men swam on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and women swam on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
THE SUMMER reception in the 20's was more inclined to display violin solos and orchestra music than fancy bag punching. However, the Kanan observed a dazzling swapping "during the dances.
the thrill of sports was not forgotten. During the summers the department of physical education would hold annual basketball, scrating baseball, tumbling, diving, weight throwing, and basketball with its strange new rules: illegal dribbling, running with the ball, and striking with a free throw."
The most popular activities for campus males was watching the 'cafeteria skirt line', where students got as high as the knee.
If a relationship went beyond the looking stage, a couple could attend Lawrence's first moving-picture theatre, the Varsity, and see such flocks as "Through a window" or "In love of love and doughnuts." The entertainment cost adults 30 and children a dime.
ABOUT THE ONLY interruption of normal classes was the arrival of members of the National Guard had to miss a day or two when they were called out for "strike action" and so did not missed a day of class quell the
Lindbergh Describes Tasadays
By JOHN NANCE
Editor's Note: On the edge of the impenetrable rain forest of the southern Philippines lives a tiny monkey. The monkey became known only last year. A newsman who accompanied an expedition of scientists to the island has reported that year tells in the following story, the second in a series.
Thus an American who is no stranger to extraordinary experiences described nine days in
TASADY FOREST, Philippines (AP)—"It was one of the great experiences of life—I think anyone would have to say that."
Charles A. Lindbergh, the "Lone Eagle" who 44 years ago became the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic, joined an expedition of the first outsiders ever to see the Tasdass caves.
a Philippines rain forest with the stone-tool-using Tasaday cavemen.
The silver-haired, 70-year-old
Gays Celebrate Freedom Day
Special to the Kansan
The celebration of what is probably America's newest holiday is now entering its third annual observance with parades, marches, picnics and dancing in the street in scores of American cities.
Christopher St. Day, originally June 28, 1969, has become a combination of the 4th of July, a Barnum and Bailey Circus and a day of holy obligation for America's second largest minority group. Officially, it celebrates the birth of the Gay Liberation movement in this country.
Christopher St. Day, or the Stonewall riots, grew out of what began as a routine police raid on a gay bar in New York City. It was there which Village. Although police harassment was nothing new for homosexual citizens of New York City, for some reason this time their response was different. They were meeting away into the night, they decided to fight.
While the女 Liberation has since been characterized by an almost total lack of violence, the Stonewall riots were an exception. They a bane of female blood, guts and gears in the-gutters riot.
THE POLICE FORCE was taken by surprise; they were obviously not expecting this sort of reaction. Gone forever was the stereotypic image of the homosexual as the limp-wrapped, meek effeminate male. Gay power in New York was born, and it was born angry.
Most New Yorkers simply dismissed the Stonewall riots as a "freak occurrence." But to the millions of gay citizens in this country, this event took on great significance. More than just an incident, the occurrence was more the birth of an idea—an idea that was deeply rooted with intolerance, discrimination and harassment.
pilot and conservation enteret,
the jungle March 25 by jumping
from a hovering helicopter onto a
dwarfed platform laced into
a treetop.
Homophile Youth Movement of New York following the riots: "The nights of Friday, June 27, 1963, and Saturday, June 28, 1969, will go down in history as the first time that thousands of homosexual men entered the city on the streets to intolerable situation which has existed in New York City for many years—namely, the Mafia (or syndicate) control of this city's gay bars in collusion with certain elements in the Police Department of the City of New York. The demonstrations were followed by violence at the Stonewall Immediate Friday, June 27th."
According to a leaflet distributed by the
"Stepping onto tree from a jet helicopter was one of the most significant experiences I have ever had—it was like passing through a making glass—abandoned the modern world." Lindbergh said.
The Lawrence Gay Liberation Front was one of many formed in the summer of 1969. Although it had not yet gained a community, up until that time it was largely invisible. But, partially as the result of two or three Lawrence residents who attended a Gay Power convention in Chicago that summer, the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front was born.
THE IMPORTANCE of what happened on Christopher St. has spread beyond the bounds of New York City, as can be seen by the sudden formation of Gay Liberation groups throughout the nation.
This year in Lawrence, the celebration took the form of an annual picnic at Lone Star Lake Saturday afternoon and a party Saturday evening. In 2015, he attended another SL. Day was celebrated this past weekend.
The first meeting, held in the Kansas Union, welcomed seven people. But after the passing of another week and a good deal of publicity, there were 90 in attendance at the second meeting.
violence of striking shopmen at Parsons.
Although Gay Liberation as a movement is probably the newest and most controversial this country has in centuries, one thing is apparent. The world has not embraced independence day twice during the summer.
THE EXPEDITION was beaten by the president of Pammin, a government-supported foundation for assisting minority girls.
The aviator reached the tents of the expedition below the caves of the Tasman two days after the departure of the party entered the jungle.
Linbergh, a member of Panamian's board of directors, helped plan the journey into Tasaday country but he was in Elizalde called him that when the expedition was ready to leave.
WHILE OBSERVING the relatively small area over which the Tasmanian range, Lindbergh's plane and a few others coming from New York where we were dealing with the superiors traverse the Atlantic in three hours to people who have traveled no more than 10 miles an hour "just began."
"I had left my gear at my place in Hawaii and had only two hours to get ready and to catch the flight to Asia." Lindbergh said, "I overcame a surplus store on 42nd Street and bought what I
He said Elizalde's cable caught him unprepared.
Arriving without his sleeping bag, he used a raincoat and blanket.
After several days with the daisy, Lindenburgh said, "There are many flowers in the garden, the most impressive thing yet is walking up that trail to see Tadassay."
In the 1930's, swimming in the gym was still sexually segregated, and the popularity of Potter's was beginning to decline. The annual summer camp needed to have very little in the way of butt but right on dancing to the music of the KU Orchestra.
standing in the caves; that took me back through the ages.
"What puzzles me most is their apparent lack of adventure. What about curiosity over what I see, or how I feel? I thought that was fundamental to man. But they don't seem to care. Also, they have not made a single difference in the way she sleeps or made steps to enter the caves. Why not make it easier?" I guess because it's already easy for them; they don't feel the need."
"Secondly are the groups standing around their fires—that is caveman.
HE PAUSED, then added,
'you know, we don't intelligent
we talk about them as stone age
people—and they are—but
there no doubt that they are
just so satisfied with their way
that they don't try to change it.'
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"Charles is a very, very good friend of Panamn; he is a great help to us." Elizalde says.
Elizalde consults the tall American frequently and values his opinions.
When he was not hiking or joining a party of Tasaday on a food-gathering mission or in the caves, Lindbergh would take one of them to lift him like-ons on the ground with his hat flapped over his eyes.
More than one letter to the Kansan complained that the reason KU was having a decrease in attendance was the lack of "entertainments." The showing of the weekly movies at the Memorial Union had been cancelled for the day there was just nothing to do.
And, yet, whatever the activity in the jungle of the Tadasay, Lindbergh was always a ready participant.
ON HIS LAST morning in Tasaday country, waiting with other members of the expedition for the helicopter which would carry him back to civilization, Lindenburgh remarked once again before the death of his dwellers had been one of the great experiences of his life.
Would it compare with his flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis?
"WHILE SOME people blame the continuing drop in enrollment to the current depression," wrote Katherine H. "182, I think there is more to it."
"No, they are quite different," Lindbergh said. "I see no reason to compare them. This experience stands all by itself."
In response, the University sponsored a variety of new events in the campus, sort of campus picnic and lunches were provided, as well as
organized competition in horseshoes, volley-ball, and tug-a-war.
The '30s also saw the organization of the first annual Campus "Sing." Set up just down the hill from Flower Hall, the entire KU summer population played the popular songs of the day.
many people as possible. The GIA also sponsored picnics, square dancing, hay rack rides, supers and weekly street dances.
The Campus Sing was still an annual event, but during the war years, it was dominated by patriotic songs.
In 1941, the University of Kansas was caught involved in an attack on this produced on campus were both subtle and blunt. KU played host to such groups as a wounded mates, who lodged in the west end of the university building. The University also appointed a session for air raid wardens.
MOST OF THE social events on campus from the late 30's to the middle '50's were organized by the Greek-Independent Association (GIA). The old basketball team had been converted into a GIA Mixer, where everyone was encouraged to "come stag" so as to meet as
For active people, there was a university golf course, located on the coast of Australia. It consisted of six holes, and all of the greens were annually refilled.
In 1941, the first "to recreational" swim club met for per week at the Robinson Gym in Chicago. Mr. bers its first summer, but after that sexually segregated swimming died a quick and quiet death.
In the last twenty years, the University has grown so large that the number of students populous to try to organize all University parties and activities. More individual groups have been formed, each uninspired summer social activities.
"YOO-HOO. FOLKS! I'M BACK IN THE PICTURE"
"... Back in the picture ..."
"... Back in the picture ..."
They're telling them a lot in freshman orientation this summer. Many of the members of the class of 76 will arrive on campus this fall knowing about computer grade-point averages to compute grade-point averages to the third decimal place in 17 seconds flat and be aware that the method used for identifying classroom buildings is strange. This means that Eisenhower Hall and "E" standing for Seaton.
But once they get here, those freshmen are going to find they need more information in them. In fact, some upperclassmen are still baffled about daily occurrences of the weather, K-Staters continually ask,
"What are these people trying to tell me?"
Bark
Frosh Orientation Omits Explaining Campus Idiom
State speaks English. But while the message may sound familiar, the message is often hidden. I enlisted the help of a former Berlitz employee, and we are happy to hear that the students of various dialects of Purple Talk.
The professor says in Purple Talk, "The text is outdated in several points, so I have added four paperbacks to the required reading list for $7.70 for paperbacks, and you won't be able to sell the textbook because a new edition is coming out next year."
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
*Lectures will supplement the reading assignments.* The task is to read *"I will introduce other material."* and will introduce other materials. Translation: "I will read passages from the textbook and talk about my own fascinating experiential."
should be back soon." What she means is: "He is out roaming around loose again. Make your sure only knows when he be 'back.'
A secretary uses Purple Talk in giving directions. When a secretary says, "Take these forms to your dean's office, and have them on the desk," they sign and sign them. Then back bring the white, yellow, green and pink copies to this office. Make sure they keep only the blue copy." They also give the students something. She means: "The people over there have fouled up the records of half the students in our department because they want to keep their hands on every piece that comes in their door."
"Copyright 1972, David Sokoloff.
Secretaries are also proficient in Purple Talk. A secretary says, for example, "Dr. Fluster is out of the building right now." He
The teacher proclaims, "To help you review your reading and lecture notes, we will occasionally have them read by a Purple Talk. What he means is: 'When I was in college, we had required class attendance and my students aren't going to get by with cutting corners.'"
K-Staters informally advise their friends about classes—in Purple Talk. "She has you regurgitate the book and her lectures" means, in plain English, "she wants you to read some of the book and listen in class to pass the tests." And "He relates the material to what's going on today, and he's really interested in student progress," she says. "Talk about anything and everything in that class and give away with it."
Faculty, staff, students—we K-Staters just keep telling it—Till it isn't what you say, Till it isn't what you say, you mean what you that counts
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